TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jacobs,Roderick A.
TI  - English syntax: a grammar for English language professionals 
SN  - 0194342778
AV  - PE1365 .J33 1995
U1  - 428.2 20
PY  - 1995///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - English language
KW  - Syntax
KW  - Outlines, syllabi, etc
KW  - Grammar
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part I: Some basic notions -- Grammar and types of grammars -- Propositional content -- Thematic roles and levels of structure -- Some properties of sentence structure -- Part II: Clauses in English -- Clause structures -- Dependent clauses -- Finite and nonfinite clauses -- Part III: The noun phrase -- The structure of noun phrases -- Types of nouns -- Pronomials and reference -- Empty noun phrases and anaphors -- Noun phrases and case -- Part IV: Organizing the information -- Information structure -- Passive voice -- Information status and syntactic structure -- Part V: Inside the predicate phrase -- Understanding tense -- Understanding aspect -- Modals -- Modal meaning and use -- Prepositions, particles, and multiword verbs -- Part VI: Interrogatives and negatives -- Operators, interrogatives, and negatives -- Interrogative and wh movement -- Part VII: Complex sentences -- Embedded clauses and noun phrase movement -- Predicates and clause arguments -- Relative clauses -- Answer key -- Glossary
ER  -